Limits on binary planets in HR 8799b, c & d Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Vanderburg A.
  2. Rodriguez J.E.
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    CDS
Abstract

We place the first constraints on binary planets and exomoons from Doppler monitoring of directly imaged exoplanets. We model radial velocity observations of HR 8799 b, c, and d from Ruffio+ (2021, J/AJ/162/290) and determine upper limits on the msini of short-period binary planets and satellites. At 95% confidence, we rule out companions orbiting the three planets more massive than msini=2M_J_ with orbital periods shorter than 5 days. We achieve our tightest constraints on moons orbiting HR 8799c, where with 95% confidence we rule out out edge-on Jupiter-mass companions in periods shorter than 5 days and edge-on half-Jupiter-mass moons in periods shorter than 1 day. These radial velocity observations come from spectra with resolution 20 times lower than typical radial velocity instruments and were taken using a spectrograph that was designed before the first directly imaged exoplanet was discovered. Similar data sets from new and upcoming instruments will probe significantly lower exomoon masses.

Keywords
  1. exoplanets
  2. radial-velocity
  3. infrared-astronomy
  4. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...922L...2V
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2023-05-04T10:16:45Z
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2023-05-04T10:16:45Z
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2023-08-25T12:48:59Z
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